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“The reader should ... be forewarned that I am not simply repeating here the points
I have made in earlier locations. I am, rather, situating a new subject, that of a
psychopathological mass-phenomenon, this time against the background of what should
be, by now, a familiar context of economic policy-shaping relevance.

The subject of this report is a specific class of mental disorders which are the most
typical cause of today’s commonplace, major man-made disasters of modern economies.”

National

A prominent Republican United States Senator has been confronted by Karl Rove and
other White House officials on his alleged “connections with Lyndon LaRouche.” This
foolishness, combined with the President’s performance at his April 28 press conference,
demonstrate that the entire White House inner circle has gone stark-raving mad.

Economics

General Motors, if not also Ford Motor Co., and scores of their supplier companies,
are mudsliding faster and faster towards bankruptcy and dismemberment of the most
important machine-tool and related industrial capabilities remaining in the American
economy.

A review of the vulnerable condition of the major components of the U.S. national
health-care infrastructure shows that the entire system is on the edge, after decades
of Federally promoted downsizing, and privateering.

International

The visit of Kuomintang leader Lien Chan to mainland China has dealt a serious blow
to the policy of the Cheney-Rumsfeld neo-conservative faction, of maintaining a high-tension
state between Taiwan and China.